Mahna~ Mahna~

it brings a nostalgia to those 1980s tv when singing and dancing in a large group in public (no, not the flash-mob way) was not considered cheesy and when The Muppets were still on tv!

and as Amy Adams quip: “oh dear, this is going to be a short movie”

or fozzie bear on an explosion: “wow that’s an expensive looking explosion. i can’t believe we had the budget for that!”

… it manages also, to capture the generation of today by being able to laugh at itself in the satirical-made-popular-by-Shrek way.

plus throw in a bunch of unexpected guest celebrities, and you get a hit! The leads themselves, Jason Segel (which took me a while to realise to be marshall from how i met your mother) and the ever bubbly Amy Adams (from enchanted) did more than enough to get me excited with the Muppets family. But it was a definite plus when Jack Black jumped out of nowhere (or rather from an Anger Management support group) and Emily Blunt’s no-nonsense secretary act a la devil wears prada and of course Jim Parsons (aka Sheldon from big bang theory) as Walter’s human alter-ego…. had me laughing with tears.

i liked how it was previously promoted in this trailer:

“Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Wait, Wait, Wait, STOP! Are there Muppets in this movie?”… before it was revealed to be THE Muppets movie.